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Originally Posted by Scucca  Get the name right! Its called the Union flag. I also find it offensive as it symbolises empire. I can just about tolerate the St George, but technically as Xians we should be flying a St Edmund | Were you born in Great Britain?
What are Xians in your use of the word? Quote:
# were Daoist immortals who had achieved physical immortality through the use of alchemy liandan or herbs yao. ...
Religous Concepts in China
# Abbreviation for the normal English word "Christian." Not a pejorative, the word often is used in online chatrooms, bulletin boards and E-mail. Sometimes erroneously appears as Xtian.
members.aol.com/porchnus/dict04.htm
# a city of central China; capital of ancient Chinese empire 221-206 BC
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
# Xi'an (; Postal System Pinyin: Sian), is the capital of Shaanxi province in China and a sub-provincial city. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xian
# Xian () is a Chinese word for an enlightened person, translatable in English as:*"spiritually immortal; transcendent; super-human; celestial being" (in Daoist/Taoist philosophy and cosmology)*"physically immortal; immortal person; immortalist; saint" (in Daoist religion and pantheon)*"alchemist ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xian (Daoist immortal)
| And why would Xians fly a "St. Edmund?"
Because he was a martyr? I sometimes in our past exchanges I wondered if you might be a Muslim.  Quote: St Edmund the Martyr
King of the East Angles
Image:The Wilton Diptych(Edmund detail).jpg
Detail from the Wilton Diptych.
Reign 25 December 855 20 November 869
Born 841
Birthplace Nuremberg, present day Germany
Died 20 November 869
Place of death historical: Hoxne, Suffolk possible: Dernford, Cambridgeshire.
Buried Bury St Edmunds
Predecessor Ęthelweard
Successor Oswald and/or
Ęthelred
Father Alcmund
Mother Siwara
Sainthood
King and Martyr
Venerated in Eastern Orthodox Church, Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Communion
Major shrine Bury St Edmunds, destroyed
Commemorated 20 November
Attributes crowned and robed as a king; holding a scepter, orb, arrow, or a sword
Patronage Douai Abbey, kings, pandemics, Roman Catholic diocese of East Anglia, the English county of Suffolk, torture victims, wolves
Saints Portal
Edmund the Martyr (84120 November 869) was a King and martyr of East Anglia. He succeeded to the East Anglian throne in 855, while still a boy. The earliest and most reliable accounts represent Edmund as descended from the preceding kings of East Anglia of the Wuffing line. Other accounts state that his father was King Ęthelweard. Geoffrey of Wells claimed that Edmund was the youngest son of Alcmund, a Saxon king. Edmund was said to have been crowned by Bishop Humbert of Elmham on Christmas Day 855.
In 869, Edmund was defeated in battle by the Great Heathen Army; he was captured, tortured and died the death of a martyr.
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